Money Ball

What are some of the relative data maintained about the MLB and for what is the data used?

Answer?hits,age, first base.

What was the difference between payroll of the A's and the Yankees?

Answer: a player's payroll in yankees may equal with the whole team of A's

What does "constraints" mean in the Oakland A's upper at the time? What was frustrating to Billy Beane in relation to these "constraints"? e.g. "gutted", "not fair", "last dog at the bowl"

Answer: oakland has no much budget, the coaches did not understand his choose. Billy beane has a huge pressure to make option.

Why did Billy Beane notice Peter Brand (Jonah Hill) and why was he interested in what he did? e.g. "Why did you like Garcia?"

Answer: because peter brand has such a good skill on statistic analytics. Peter makes billy beane to know that he needs to choose players for win but not price.

Nineteen minutes into the movie Peter Brand begins to define the tremendous power of Quantitative Analysis in MLB. Was Brand respected by the Cleveland Indians?

Answer: yes, Cleveland Indians borrowed peter's assess to help them making decision.

What was the difference in thinking of Brand and virtually all of MLB? e.g. "You shouldn't buy players, you should buy wins."

Answer: peter brand noticed these players by focusing on their single skills such as first base, or hits, but not their average level.

Brand was an Economics major from Yale, yet he saw baseball through the numbers. How thorough was his analysis? Explain.

Answer: he recorded every competition videos, and recorded every players data on every game, and he made a table to help him analysis these players characteristic, skills, from these data , he can directly made the most Appropriate choice.

The statistics were keyed not only to win games but within the "constraints" of the A's. Why was honest important between Beane and Brand? Between Brand and players? Between Bean and Justice?

Answer: for beane and brand , they have to make a correct decision for the team and achieve the maximum profit for team, also, between brand and players , maybe the statistics can not represent the real skills to the players, sometimes they have to make decisions again after they found that these players may could not reflect the skills as they had on table. To bean, the statistics is a method to help him reorganize the team, but it is not mean all, specially if let A compare with other rich teams, it is unfair, statistics team is a solution them can't avoid.

What was the big issue the scouts and the Beane/Brand meeting? e.g. Players vs. Get on base; Not replacing Giambi with 3 guys can get on bases—"don't care if he can walk or hit; new word—"teach" to play first base

Answer: billy and peter wants to use a new method to reorganize the team, but coaches has never seen this method before , they did not trust the data can help team to get win, they still use their traditional thinking to guide themself.

What is the "new direction of the Oakland A's?" Why was this a risk? e.g. Baseball is not about numbers vs. scout with 25 hrs experience.

Answer: changing giambi, replace some new players, and keep out of off-stage. Billy import a number of new players which are troubles in other coaches' eyes. They do not trust the plan.

What is the beef and heart of the matter with Billy Beane, as he explained it to the old scout? How did he replace his seasoned scout?

Answers: billy beane beeves that he needs to make hard decision and these decision may not work as he wished, it was a risk.

"This better work!"—Beane to Brand: How confident was Brand? Beane? e.g. at the 1:16 mark—"Do you believe in this thing or not?"

Answer: brand did not have so much confident as beane had.

What were the requirements of winning—players being played? How important was winning in the philosophy change at Oakland?